Posted on 04/11/2021 7:12:06 PM PDT by george76
The demonstrations have continued for several days, and crowds of dozens of demonstrators have strained police resources, especially during busy weekend nights, Green said..
The city of Burbank put up a chain-link fence Saturday around a restaurant which has repeatedly defied COVID-19 mandates, while people continued to demonstrate on both sides of the issue.
The fence was erected around the business at 2623 W. Magnolia Blvd. to prevent the owners of Tinhorn Flats Saloon & Grill from reopening with unsafe conditions due to a court-approved shutoff of electricity and a preliminary injunction granted Friday to prevent the restaurant from operating without a County Health Permit and City Conditional Use Permit, said Burbank police Lt. Derek Green.
The demonstrations have continued for several days, and crowds of dozens of demonstrators have strained police resources, especially during busy weekend nights, Green said.
“We will be out there to maintain peace and order,” he said. The groups have been peaceful “for the most part,” he said. But people who live around the small business district have been “impacted by the commotion.”
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mitchell L. Beckloff Friday told attorney Mark J. Geragos, on behalf of the Tinhorn Flats Saloon & Grill, that he was welcome to file a motion to modify the injunction, which is tailored along the same lines as the temporary restraining order the judge imposed against the Western-themed watering hole on March 8.
The judge did not levy any sanctions against the restaurant owner, who has defied health orders and continued to offer outdoor dining at a time it was banned in Los Angeles County as a way of limiting the spread of the coronavirus.
Geragos said he will move to have the preliminary injunction dissolved, and he also complimented his opposing counsel, Deputy City Attorney Michael M. Lee.
“I wish our clients got along as well as Mr. Lee and I do,” Geragos said.
The city maintains the restaurant is an ongoing public nuisance.
Lucas Lepejian, the 20-year-old son of the restaurant's owner, was taken into custody about 9:40 a.m. Tuesday after Burbank police said he was seen removing sandbags placed in front of the building to keep anyone from entering. He was cited and released a few hours later; it was his third arrest in six days.
Burbank Assistant City Attorney Anita Clarke told the Los Angeles Times that no determination has been made about what, if any, charges will be brought, but a criminal misdemeanor is a possibility.
Tinhorn Flats owner Baret Lepejian, who lives in Thailand while his children operate the restaurant, told the Los Angeles Times that he supports his son's actions and vowed not to pay the roughly $50,000 in fines that have been levied against the business.
“Show me one shred of evidence how I am endangering the public,” he told the Times. “This has never been about safety or the public. It's never been about that. This whole thing is about fear and control.”
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We are living in a police state.
In Canofdog they did that around a church and people took the fence down.
Criminal government.
The tree of liberty has suffered a long enough drought...
I went back last week and it was packed. A band was setting up to play music and the food and drink and people were in abundance.
Sorry to see that the Burbanksters didn't leave well enough alone.
Not about a virus
Just now noticing this, are you?
So they are imitating the utopia of the North, Canadastan.
Fear and Control,
Yup.
Burn the city down.
I thought fences did not keep people out.
It's great when you get your kids to work for you and avoid CA sky high workers comp insurance.
Spot on.
This is why God gave us bolt cutters.
You just noticed?
Just made a statement. Didn’t need snark, yet I got it twice.
“The restaurant owner... has defied health orders>’
NBC news is garbage. TV writers are told to make a problem and then give a solution. Here NBC is making a problem, a bad owner, and giving a solution, a fence.
Fact. The owner did not defy the health orders of neighboring counties, like Ventura and Orange Counties.
LA County has selfish leaders who reject the love of the Lord, fail to serve His people and make rules that are silly.
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